Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Maybe read it. Lots of ideas and interesting takes on the world. Quite a lot of plot, which said ideas are kind of dumped into.
It's a future world where consumption is encouraged with no angst or inkling of the enviromental consequences. So I suppose, in the age of patio heaters and throw away coffee cups, he got that right. Children are conditioned into accepting their social class and their world by the repetition of phrases and some aversion training. Tick again.
There's a very interesting idea that women have been conditioned to accept the unnatural. They hate the idea of monogamy and of motherhood. That's an interesting assumption about the natural state of women. The book's not about that though, that's an aside. It's about two men really. One of them is definitely a sympathetic character because he speaks in a lot of Shakespeare quotes, despite being a savage. The real savage are the civilised ones who don't know any Shakespeare. Hmmm. It's also about the value of sadness, and how to pacify a population, and I'd go as far as to say it's done well.
Think I'm glad I read it.
It's a future world where consumption is encouraged with no angst or inkling of the enviromental consequences. So I suppose, in the age of patio heaters and throw away coffee cups, he got that right. Children are conditioned into accepting their social class and their world by the repetition of phrases and some aversion training. Tick again.
There's a very interesting idea that women have been conditioned to accept the unnatural. They hate the idea of monogamy and of motherhood. That's an interesting assumption about the natural state of women. The book's not about that though, that's an aside. It's about two men really. One of them is definitely a sympathetic character because he speaks in a lot of Shakespeare quotes, despite being a savage. The real savage are the civilised ones who don't know any Shakespeare. Hmmm. It's also about the value of sadness, and how to pacify a population, and I'd go as far as to say it's done well.
Think I'm glad I read it.
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